[mduggles]

It's not a long-term problem because they're going to have to add support for RCS at some point, meaning Android users will have a similar experience to iMessage with their iOS friends.

Apple wasn't going to port iMessage to Android because there isn't any benefit. I can't charge people to use a messaging app, they're free.

I love iMessage, it's one of the reasons I stay on the Apple platform, but in a world where almost all my friends use some other app anyway, it doesn't really matter. Like I still have to have Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Snapchat and Signal installed in order to talk to everyone. iMessage is mostly great for less technical family members because they "get it out of the box".

[tw04]

>It's not a long-term problem because they're going to have to add support for RCS at some point, meaning Android users will have a similar experience to iMessage with their iOS friends.

Except it won't be encrypted. And the social stigma, as stupid as it is, of "green chat" or whatever teenagers are calling it, isn't going away.

[ariwilson]

To summarize, Apple acting anti-competitively (lock users to iPhones by treating Android users as second class citizens) is okay because:

1) they might fix it at some indeterminate point (do you have a source for how this will work? or some evidence pointing this way?)

2) they don't benefit by porting (uh, why is Apple Music on Android then? and yes, this is why you act anti-competitively)

3) there are other chat apps (but literally every other chat app you mention is cross-platform)

This is a very weak reply to the allegations alleged in the article.